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Super Eagles midfielder, Frank Onyeka, has revealed how the penalty takers within the team were selected during the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations. Nigeria fell short against DR Congo in the 2026 World Cup playoff. Eric Chelle’s men also lost to Morocco in the AFCON semi-final via spot-kicks. However, there was a respite, as the Eagles beat Egypt via penalties in the third-place playoff. “I’ve never kicked one in my life. They don’t pick me, but I also try not to involve myself,” Onyeka said in an interview with Oma Akatugba. “However, it’s something I need to work on, because…

Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State has reaffirmed his commitment to the Peoples Democratic Party, declaring his comfort in the opposition party despite a growing wave of high-profile defections to the ruling All Progressives Congress. “No, I’m comfortable in the PDP,” Makinde told journalists after closed-door talks with President Bola Tinubu at the State House in Abuja on Thursday. The Oyo governor emphasised that his visit to the President was focused on governance matters affecting the nation rather than party political considerations. “The President is the President of Nigeria, not the President of APC. And we’re talking about governance here.…

Troops of Operation Hadin Kai on Thursday foiled a Boko haram ambush, neutralising ten terriorists including two of their senior commanders identified as Basulhu and Ubaida, along the Sambisa and Mandara Mountains axis of Borno state The terrorists were neutralised after an ambush they laid using a Roadside Improvised Explosive Device, and heavy gunfire  was foiled by the military’s superior firepowers Confirming the development in a statement on Thursday evening, the Media Information Officer, Joint Task Force Northeast operation Hadin Kai, Lt Col Sani Uba, said troops under Sector 1 responded to the ambush with superior firepower. Sani said, “Troops…

The pigeon and the chicken are not neighbours. It is the heavy rain that fell which made them strange bedfellows. The pigeon is the priest of the air, the chicken is the scratcher on land. Long before the first corn sprouted, long before humans learnt to normalise chaos, the sky’s tear glands tore. And heavens wept! Water gushed down in torrents. The flood was heavy enough to dig up the corpse of the lazy. Lightning scribbled signatures on the sky. Thunder clapped behind the cloud. A deluge swept through Manor Farm, carting along with it the pigeon’s pen and the…

The Executive Secretary of the Nigerian Shippers’ Council, Dr Pius Akutah, has stated that stakeholder engagement is critical to maintaining order within the port system and ensuring that Nigeria’s ports align with global best practices, while safeguarding the interests of port users and the national economy. This comes even as Akutah has repeatedly stressed that shipping companies at the country’s seaports must consult relevant stakeholders before raising tariffs. Akutah disclosed this on Wednesday in Lagos during a stakeholders’ meeting on tariff review for charges by shipping companies, service providers, clearing agents, importers, and freight forwarders. Akutah, who was represented at…

Delta State Government has donated N10 million to support the humanitarian work of Miss Chineyenwa Judith Amadi, an Imo State-born cancer awareness advocate. Her initiative, “A Ride for Life”, raises funds to assist cancer patients across Nigeria. The presentation took place at the Conference Hall of the Secretary to the State Government in Asaba, on Thursday. Presenting the cheque on behalf of the government, Secretary to the State Government, Dr Kingsley Emu, described cancer as “one of the most devastating diseases confronting contemporary society” and said Governor Sheriff Oborevwori had personally directed the donation in support of the initiative. “This…

A judge is questioning whether Epic Games and Google are settling their long-running antitrust fight partly because of a previously unannounced partnership involving the Unreal Engine, Fortnite, and Android. In a hearing in San Francisco today, the court revealed that Epic and Google have struck a new deal that apparently includes “joint product development, joint marketing commitment, joint partnerships.” California District Judge James Donato expressed concerns that the agreement — which he indicated would involve Epic “helping Google market Android” and Google newly “using Epic’s core technology” — could have led Epic to soften its demands for changes to the…

The lawsuit was filed days after the president threatened on social media to sue the banking giant for debanking him weeks after his supporters attacked the US Capitol in 2021.US President Donald Trump has filed a lawsuit in Florida state court against JPMorgan, claiming that the banking giant terminated accounts connected to the president and his businesses “without warning or provocation.” According to a Thursday Bloomberg report, Trump filed a complaint in the Miami-Dade County state court, seeking $5 billion in damages from JPMorgan and its CEO, Jamie Dimon. The complaint was not available on the court’s public docket at…

Jameela Jamil is the newest celebrity whose text messages about the Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni court drama were unsealed — revealing comments calling Lively a “suicide bomber” and a “villain.” Court documents obtained by Us Weekly on Wednesday, January 21, revealed text exchanges between Jamil, 39, and Baldoni’s publicist Jennifer Abel from August 2024, which is when the actor, 41, originally faced accusations of drama on the set of the It Ends With Us. “I want to officially incorporate nightmare c*** and demon c*** into my vocabulary; UNBELIEVABLE; She’s doing this to herself,’” Abel wrote about Lively, 38, to…

The Nigerian Export Promotion Council (NEPC) says exporters in Imo State generated $1,244,095 in export proceeds in 2025. The Imo Coordinator of the council, Anthony Ajuruchi, disclosed this during a follow-up engagement with cocoa farmers in the state on Thursday in Owerri. The News Agency of Nigeria recalls that 50 cocoa farmers and exporters in Imo received 30 cocoa seedlings each in 2025 as part of interventions to boost production for export. Mr Ajuruchi said the amount was derived from proceeds of both formal and informal export transactions carried out by the farmers within the 2025 fiscal year. He commended…